When a Swan Isn’t as Strong as It Thinks: The strongSwan Bug Saga

Florian Picca reports a bug in the charon-tkm daemon of strongSwan, the IKE/IPsec suite, causing a buffer overflow that could potentially lead to remote code execution. Fixes have been rolled out for different distributions.

Hot Take:

Well, well, well... if it isn't strongSwan, the IKE/IPsec suite, making headlines again. Not for its brute strength, but for a bug reported by Florian Picca in the charon-tkm daemon. You know, it's like inviting a vampire into your house. You think they're going to behave, but next thing you know, they're causing a buffer overflow. Not so 'strong', now, are we, Swan?

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